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Topic: 42 sightings (Read 45515 times)

Finally getting over the disappointment from last Sunday (reengaging socially and clearing out the spammers here). So far, 42 hasn't been all that positive an omen for my sports teams. But then who is to say the meaning of life the universe and everything is supposed to be positive. Perhaps "God's last message to his creation" is more an indication of what one can expect from the meaning of life.

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"That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it." - Zaphod Beeblebrox

My husband said something about 42 as he was leaving for work this morning. Just as he went out to the garage he said, "somethingsomething forty-two." I opened the door and said. "Forty-two what?" He said. "Yeah." But it was cold, so I said goodbye and shut the door. LOL

Hmm, speaking of which, Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States

I'm not sure what to make of that.

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". . . We realised we had been myopically shortsighted to think this thing was just an adding machine. . . . So we began to develop it as a super typewriter. With a long and increasingly incomprehensible feature list. Users of Microsoft Word will know what I'm talking about."

We know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but how did Douglas Adams come up with it? In this excerpt from the book 42: Douglas Adams’ Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, author Peter Gill teases us with some background on how Adam’s radio comedy series (and later, book) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy came about.

As the book’s title suggests, Adams, like most authors, was not afraid to borrow, and there are revealing similarities between Welsh’s Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. One of these provides perhaps the most intriguing explanation for “Why 42?”. As you may remember Adams had Deep Thought perform a little expectation management and say: “You’re really not going to like it” before revealing the Ultimate Answer.

Curiously, Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe had told of visitors to the UK searching for family roots finding “the answer a little disappointing” – after travelling around the world in search of “the solution to the most puzzling question of all”. A coincidence, perhaps . . . but this coincidence is on page 42.

Coincidence or not, knowing the origin of “42? takes nothing away from the genius of Adams’ work. Read more from the book at The Guardian.

Well recently I've been watching a TV series called Doctor Who, and I printed out the episode guide for it and noticed that episode 184 is called "42". The episode has nothing to do with life the universe and everything though. The episode is actually about the Doctor trying to save a ship being hurtled into the sun and he only has 42 minutes to do it.

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"In order to do something that you couldn't do before, you have to do something that you can't do." -Dr. Michael Bolin

Well recently I've been watching a TV series called Doctor Who, and I printed out the episode guide for it and noticed that episode 184 is called "42". The episode has nothing to do with life the universe and everything though. The episode is actually about the Doctor trying to save a ship being hurtled into the sun and he only has 42 minutes to do it.

I think that is no coincidence. Once upon a time, Douglas Adams wrote for Doctor Who. But that was long before David Tennant.